The Center for Southwest Research serves patrons from far and wide. Places they hail from are as broad as the archives they consulted. In April 2018 they came from across campus, the city and state, and from seven states, Canada, the UK and Australia, and also worked with the reference archivists online.
Among our April visitors was an Illinois researcher working on Reies Lopez Tijerina. Texan guests also pulled up those on Tijerina, with an interest in rekindling a new Poor Peoples March on Washington, as well as the ATSF Railroad Records. Pittsburgh scholars came West for the Duncan California Maidu Indian Oral histories and the Ernest Baughman New Mexico folk stories. Laguna patrons viewed the Indian Mission Press booklets and the Pueblo Lands Board papers. A Native American South Dakotan loved seeing the Robert Robideau, American Indian Movement papers. A Mexican scholar online ordered scans of the rare Howard Tibbitts 1900s photos of Mexico. A researcher came from Australia to view the Dorothy Brett Papers.
The CSWR reference crew also assisted researchers with material for their forthcoming books, articles, and museum displays, including Latin American art images, architectural drawings, Spanish colonial documents, campus history for the Daily Lobo and UNM Departments, photos for Wild West magazine, and background studies for a New York film on the American Indian Movement. CSWR Instruction sessions and Blog / Facebook posts included many incredible primary sources to show the depth of the archives. In addition, the CSWR/CRS archival fellows publically discussed the new collections they are working on. Likewise, the CSWRers featured displays of primary sources during the Anne Hillerman talk and beautiful manuscript leaves during the Medieval Studies Spring lecture series.
And the gentle waves ripple across the land.
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